Words on the Word
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A Prayer for Difference amidst Unity, and Unity amidst Difference
Does race matter? Is ethnicity important? How do cultural backgrounds affect our everyday lives? This week at Gordon College we have a special emphasis week, BEYOND COLORBLIND: BEYOND COLORBLIND is a focus week to help start new conversations about race and culture on campus. We hope the lectures and discussions help us consider how our racial … Continue reading
A prayer for the first day of school
This semester is the first day of classes at Gordon. This morning in chapel I led us in a responsive prayer, offering thanksgiving and petition to God at the start of a new semester. I offered the prayer in italics, then we all as one congregation read the bold responses. For the start of a … Continue reading
Praising God through Academic Biblical Studies: Less Hypermodernist Objectivism, More Affect!
Why such an emphasis on wanting to get as close to the “original text” of the Bible as possible? Or, as some scholars call it, the “earliest attainable text”? Earlier this week I wrote a bit about scholarly editions of the Jewish Scriptures, both the Greek and the Hebrew. But I began asking myself today, … Continue reading
New President for Princeton Seminary
Princeton Seminary has just announced a new President, Reverend Dr. M. Craig Barnes: The Board of Trustees of Princeton Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the unanimous election of the Reverend Dr. M. Craig Barnes as its seventh president, and as professor of pastoral ministry. Barnes, a 1981 Master of Divinity graduate of Princeton, has … Continue reading
BibleWorks 9 now runs natively on Macs
Big news from BibleWorks today. BibleWorks 9 now runs natively on a Mac. And there’s a free way Mac users who own BibleWorks 9 can do it. Read all about it here. I’m looking forward to taking it for a spin. See links to all six parts of my BibleWorks 9 review here. UPDATE 10/4/12: … Continue reading
My Accordance 10 review: all six parts (plus Beale/Carson module review)
Here, collected in one place, are all six parts of my review of the Bible software program Accordance 10, as well as my two-part review of the Accordance module for Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, edited by G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson. Part 1: In which I finally try out Accordance Bible … Continue reading
All six parts of my BibleWorks 9 review
Here, collected in one place, are all six parts of my review of the excellent Bible software program, BibleWorks 9: Prologue: BibleWorks in the pew? (Not quite, but the next best thing) (link) Part 1: BibleWorks out of the box (setup and layout) (link) Part 2: The Verse tab (link) Part 3: Would Mark’s Jesus … Continue reading
Would Mark’s Jesus have us handle snakes and drink poison? (part 2 of 2) (BibleWorks 9 review, concluded)
The Gospel of Mark has a couple of possible (disputed) endings. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the options for how to understand Mark’s closing chapter. It is the so-called longer ending of Mark that has Jesus appearing to some of his followers and talking about their picking up snakes and drinking poison. … Continue reading
These 4 Perks are Divine in BibleWorks 9
Okay–not divine per se, but pretty indispensable for Bible study. Here are four perks in BibleWorks 9 that, the more I use the program, the more I appreciate. 1. Archer and Chirichigno’s Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament Sure, this is perhaps an obscure thing to highlight. But it’s a major perk in my … Continue reading
Would Mark’s Jesus have us handle snakes and drink poison? (part 1 of 2) (BibleWorks 9 review, continued)
Many believe that Mark’s Gospel ends rather abruptly at 16:8 (“for they were afraid”), but others have found it difficult to think of a Gospel ending with Jesus’ followers’ being afraid to say anything to anyone about the resurrection. So there is the so-called shorter (add-on) ending of Mark, which adds to the above, “…the … Continue reading
